I have an android box right now that I purchased back in 2015 which works ok for my h.264 videos off of my nas
however in that time I have continued to record way too many tv shows because I am
going to be canceling cable and I don’t have the budget for Netflix or a Service.
Putting together my archive has been great but my drive is starting to fill up
so I have started converting the videos over to h.265 and the results are good.
I figure I will have at minimum 40% more space once they are converted.
Unfortunately my older Android Box doesn’t decode the h.265 videos very well or good at all.
My desktop can but that does my TV no good.
I have been looking at newer generic boxes that support h.265 decoding
some of them also have more memory and storage which should be good.
However picking the correct CPU/GPU setup is difficult.
There is no way i can afford a nvida shield and I don’t game anyway.
The Mi Box seems a bit under featured for the price.
another thing.. did I hear right that support for h265 hardware decoding code in future releases of Kodi won’t be supported for android boxes?
I am sorry I am not elite enough to own a higher priced device but its not in my future.
anyway … saw that and was a bit disappointed..
I hope someone can give me some real world suggestions
thanks a lot